The birthplace of
Jean
Baptiste Joseph Fourier
is located in the centre of the old part of the town
Auxerre. It possesses the number 3 in the
street named after him. A street-sign is shown at the end of this page. The commemorative
plaque is placed on the left edge of the frontside of the building whose upper part of it is
shown on the right. Its French text reads like:

In this house on March 21st,1768 Jean-Joseph
Fourier was born,constant secretary of the Academyof Sciences, member of the
FrenchAcademy, died in Parison March 16th,
1830.